hi i just bought a brand new accord on saturday and its been shaking like its out of balance at 45mph and up. i took it to the dealer and they balanced it twice and still the same. i just took it now to my local tire kingdom and they showed that it was out of balance but it is still doing the same thing. any help please??

 

Probably an "out-of-round" tire. OOR can be balanced. New tire required. Insist that dealer fix the problem.

good luck

 

might be true. the sales man told me that accord is been in the lot since march of 2010. i dont know if that causes anything

 

Have your tires road force balanced by the dealer.

 

whats that?

 

There's been a few people on other forums with similar problems on their 8th gen Accord. Most had the problem fixed by road force balancing.

A “Road Force” tire balancing machine is different than a traditional tire/ wheel balancer. It uses a loaded roller to help perform a computer simulated “road test.” It measures the tire/wheel assembly to determine how "round" the assembly is when rolling under a load. Even though both tire and wheel are round, they are not 360 degree perfect. The road force machine can identify and locate tire and wheel non-uniformity problems caused by (1) stiffer or weaker areas of the tire under load, (2) runout in the wheel and (3) the random position between the two when mounted. These items may potentially cause vibration that a traditional tire/wheel balancer cannot address.

The machine can find the low point in the tire and the high point on the wheel (or vice versa) and matches them together to make the best possible rolling circle. Consequently, a tech can even move the tire around on the rim to try and establish the smallest amount of out-of-roundness, in addition to balancing via weights.

It requires a knowledgeable tech with proper training to correctly utilize what the machine is telling them.

Go to this site and see the short flash demo videos (not the long videos) regarding the Hunter machine…

gsp9700.com/